Watch List notes:

Netherlandish, probably by Arent van Bolten of Zwolle, early 17th century, a pair of gilt bronze plaquettes comprising (i) The Doubting Thomas, Christ showing his wounds to St. Thomas, the other apostles in the background, 78mm x 58.5mm (Molinier 695 as Italian; Bange (1923) 1485 as German), and (ii) Pietà with John the Evangelist, Christ's body supported by the Virgin who is attended by St John at the foot of the cross, 77mm x 60mm (apparently unrecorded), each with traces of mounting on their reverses, very fine early casts (2). These form part of a series of uniformly sized plaquettes of Christ's Passion. The attribution to Arent van Bolten (c. 1573-before 1633), a silversmith working in Zwolle, is based on their stylistic similarity to a large crucifixion plaque signed with the initials AVB (Frederiks, Dutch Silver (1952), 108) and is more or less accepted by Warren in the Ashmolean catalogue. As he notes, van Bolten visited Italy as a young man and is recorded in Rome in 1596 and 1602. Ingrid Weber in describing other plaquettes from the same series suggested a follower of Antonio Abondio, taking into account their general Italian style. In a recent article published online by Michael Riddick, the suggestion is made that they should be attributed to Antonio Gentili da Faenza, the goldsmith and sculptor working in Rome in the years around 1600 - see https://renbronze.com/2019/10/11/the-paxes-and-reliefs-of-antonio-gentili-da-faenza/
(1500-2000 GBP)